recriminatory
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The final act was recriminatory, as Byrne commanded an ever greater share of the spotlight while the other members quietly seethed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
He warned against the "rancour and acrimony" of social media, with its angry extremism, and the risk of becoming a "shouting or recriminatory society".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2023
It is also possible to see a descent into a recriminatory and poisonous mess which leaves Scotland feeling betrayed and the rest of the UK aggrieved.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2014
Del Rey’s delivery is somber and vaguely recriminatory, as though her boundless affections aren’t being sufficiently reciprocated by their object.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2012
Presented to him in these simple words, it checked the recriminatory speech which, his mind having recovered to some extent from the first shock of the meeting, he had intended to deliver.
From The Coming of Bill by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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